How to resize datagridview control when form resizes

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I found a lot of questions about how to resize the form when a child control resizes  but I m trying to do something much simpler  maybe so simple people don t even ask it       I d like to automatically resize my datagridview s width to fill the width of the form  After simply placing the datagridview on the form  the grid stays the same size when the form is resized  That happens even when I use the little constant-distance-snap thing  connecting  the control to the form s borders   Do I have to handle a form resize event of some sorts  or is there a property I can set in VS

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For me  anchoring works only if I set it to all four sides   Anchoring  Top  Bottom  Left  Right  Setting anchoring just to Left  Bottom moves the whole object when the form is resized in bottom  left side  Setting all four sizes really resizes the object  when parent is resized

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You have to chose  Fill  in the Dock property

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The  Anchor  property exists for any container  form  panel  group box  etc   You can choose 1 side  left for example  or up to all four sides   Anchor means the distance between the side s  chosen and the edge of the container will stay the same  even upon resizing   E g   A datagridview  dgv1  is in the middle of Form1  Your  Anchor  the left and top sides of dgv1  When the app is run and resizing occurs  either from different screen resolutions or changing the form size  the top and left sides of dgv1 will change accordingly to maintain their distance from the edge of From1  The bottom and right sides will not

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set the  Dock  property of datagridview in layoutto one of these properties   top  left  bottom  right  ok

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Set the anchor property of the control to hook to all sides of the parent - top  bottom  left  and right

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If anyone else is stuck with this  here s what helped me  Changing the Anchor settings did not work for me  I am using datagridviews within groupboxes in a form which is inside a parent form   Handling the form resize event was the only thing that worked for me   private void Form1 Resize object sender  EventArgs e         groupBoxSampleQueue MinimumSize   new Size  this as OperatingForm  Width - 22  167        groupBoxMachineStatus MinimumSize   new Size  this as OperatingForm  Width - 22  167       I added some raw numbers as buffers

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If you want to show the complete headers text  this will auto resize the columns so that the headers will show complete header text   dataGridView1 AutoSizeColumnsMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode AllCells    For Dock Mode  If you want to show the Dock Mode in your panel or form   dataGridView1 AutoSizeColumnsMode   DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode Fill

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Use control anchoring  Set property Anchor of your GridView to Top  Left  Right and it will resize with container  If your GridView are placed inside of some container  ex Panel  then Panel should be anchored too

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In your form constructor you could create an event handler like this   this SizeChanged frm sizeChanged     Then create an event handler that resizes the grid appropriately  example   private void frm sizeChanged object sender  EventArgs e         dataGrid Size   new Size 100  200       Replacing those numbers with whatever you d like

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Unless I am misunderstanding what you are asking you can do this on the properties for your data grid view  You need to set the Anchor property to the sides you want it locked to

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You have two options here    Option one  Anchor Option two  Dock   Look for both properties and figure out which one suit your needs   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system windows forms control anchor aspx  and  http   msdn microsoft com en-us library system windows forms control dock aspx

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Set the property of your DataGridView   Anchor  Top Left AutoSizeColumn  Fill Dock  Fill

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